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Alzheimers disease is a disease of the brain and not a mental illness. It is a medical condition which as such, responds to medication and non-medicated approaches to relieving the symptoms and even stalling the progression of Alzheimer’s.

Living successfully with Alzheimers disease disease means learning the stages and how they progress so that understanding can take place that makes it easier to cope with the disease.

As individuals with the disease and those who love them come to terms with the disease understanding the nature of the disease and the relationship between the brain and the manifestation of Alzheimer’s symptoms is paramount to being able to live successfully with the disease.

Often in the very early stages of the disease a person will say that they have senility, or that “old age is setting in”. The truth is that Alzheimer’s is not a normal state of aging. It is a disease that although it occurs more often in those who are older than 80 years of age the typical onset of early Alzheimers disease is age 65, which at today’s standards is not all that old. Rarely someone under 65 will develop early stage Alzheimer’s.

To make life easier for the Alzheimer’s patient in the early or middle stages of the disease break up tasks into smaller steps so that the entire task will not seem quite as overwhelming to them.

We all tend to “temporarily” forget things from time to time. When these “senior moments” change from being only a nuisance to perhaps something more serious is when they start to interfere in your daily life. If this happens then those moments may be something more serious such as a manifestation of Alzheimer’s symptoms.